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compressor died! Why?

So yesterday i ran a no cooling call. 5ton trane heat pump for a training room. Low pressures, 40deg superheat, no subcooling, flahsing sight glass, and going off on freeze stat. I charged the unit to 10deg superheat as specified by trane per the space and ambient conditions. Today no cooling. Go back out and compressor is dead. Pulling 91amps then tripping the internal. I weighed out the charge and i was dead nuts on the charge per the installers notes. I personally am ok with it but the account manager wants a detailed explanation as to why this compressor died. I dont beleive i did anything wrong but Im not perfect. Any one have an idea?

Having to defend my service practices to an accouns manager would piss me off to no end. I once lost a compressor after a quarterly and got the 4rth degree from that companies facilities manager. He wanted to know why I didnt catch it.

I told him s**t happens.

Sometimes there is no rhyme or reason. You do your best and dont apologize

Having to defend my service practices to an accouns manager would piss me off to no end. I once lost a compressor after a quarterly and got the 4rth degree from that companies facilities manager. He wanted to know why I didnt catch it.

I told him s**t happens.

Sometimes there is no rhyme or reason. You do your best and dont apologize

True so true. I came up on a unit in real bad shape, no PM in years. cleaned it up, checked it out, left it running as designed. Dropped dead two days later..

don't give an 80 yr old man a 20 yr old tune up sometime they can't handle it

Running a system low on refrigerant overheats and stresses the compressor. It''s a gamble, it could last for years, it sometimes fails quickly.

I can cut the compressor apart and do a detailed autopsy. It will cost you an additional $$$.

“I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
― Benjamin Franklin

Depending on how long it was working improperly, it got used to that. Now all of a sudden it has to do work and it doesn't like doing work. How many times have we seen this with condenser motors? The day after you clean a plugged coil the motor takes a crap.

Officially, Down for the count

YOU HAVE TO GET OFF YOUR ASS TO GET ON YOUR FEET

I know enough to know, I don't know enoughLiberalism-Ideas so good they mandate them

A guy i worked with was servicing a unit on a milk cooler, while pumping it down to change the drier the compressor died... Luckily the customer could see that it was just a coincidence.

Years later on another farm i replaced three small milk tanks with a 15,000L one, left a smaller tank running in the room next door, while i was back there the next day finishing off i heard the old compressor start to labour then a hum and silence! Not a day too soon!

I have offered to have compressors sent away for a failure report (compressor rebuilder here do them) but once the customer realised they would have to pay for this service they soon changed their mind. I expect though you would have to be careful or you could end up with a customer wanting you to provide a report for free proving you didn't kill it.

Everything that has been made will fail and turn back to dust in, its just a mater of time.